Anthony Abbate Art

Anthony Abbate, born in Providence Rhode Island in 1949, has been a resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico since 1981. He studied fine arts at Rhode Island College and has been creating various forms of artwork for over 30 years. His works include photography, sculpture, ink renderings, charcoal and pastel drawings, acrylic paintings and watercolors. His most recent works of original, enhanced and manipulated photographic images produced with archival pigments on 100% rag include: a series titled Cactus, Cacti and Cactuses, images which range from bold representations of natural desert landscapes to wildly colored images of cacti and other wilderness vegetation, and a similar series on fruit titled Juicy Fruit. Other series include Flowers, Buddhist and Asian images, European architectural forms and altered rural settings and Animals. Current works are being produced in a series of 1/1, 1/2, 1/3 or 1/5.